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COVID-19 vaccine delivered to Townsville nursing home in ‘error’, Health Department admits
A Townsville nursing home has been ordered to return its supply of the coronavirus vaccine after it was delivered to the facility by mistake.
Key points:
- Residents as old as 105 in a Townsville home are yet to receive their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine
- Nursing home staff say they are frustrated by ongoing delays
- Less than a third of aged care residents around the country have received their first jab
Residents at the Loreto Nursing Home in Pimlico were scheduled to receive their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine on March 29, but on March 25 staff were told their in-house clinic wouldn’t being going ahead because it could not be guaranteed the vaccine would arrive in time.
But the home’s director of nursing, Michelle Yanner, said a supply…
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